{"id":21264,"date":"2010-05-13T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=21264"},"modified":"2010-05-13T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T17:25:17","slug":"gunpla-anime-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/gunpla-anime-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunpla Anime Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gunpla_buliders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gunpla_buliders-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"gunpla_buliders\" title=\"gunpla_buliders\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gunpla_buliders-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gunpla_buliders-327x450.jpg 327w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gunpla_buliders.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking the Gundam anime franchise in a completely new direction, Bandai has announced the development of a three episode mini-series titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bandai-hobbyproshop.net\/gunpla30th\/builders.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mokei Senshi Gunpla Builders Beginning G<\/a>,&#8221; that will celebrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpla30th.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">30th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam plastic model franchise<\/a> and serve as a promotion for the upcoming &#8220;Beginning Gundam&#8221; line of plastic model kits. Unlike the previous sci-fi Gundam anime, the &#8220;Gunpla&#8221; series will occur in the present day real world and star Haru Irei, a teen boy who develops a love for collecting and building Gundam plastic model kits. Gundam anime production studio Sunrise will animate with Kou Matsuo (Kure-nai, Red Garden) directing and Yousuke Kuroda (Hellsing, Gundam OO) scripting. The first episode will screen at this summer&#8217;s Gundam Super Expo publicity event. The following episodes will air on the NHK BS11 network.<\/p>\n<p>Over 400 million Gundam plastic model kits have sold in Japan since the line premiered in July 1980.<\/p>\n<p><i>Setting aside blatant commercialism, we&#8217;ve seen Gunpla figure prominently in Genshiken and Keroro Gunso, so it makes sense to finally see them in a literal Gundam anime. And after 31 years, this is a neat way to continue taking the Gundam anime franchise in new directions.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-05-12\/mokei-senshi-gunpla-builders-beginning-anime-announced\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the Gundam anime franchise in a completely new direction, Bandai has announced the development of a three episode mini-series titled &#8220;Mokei Senshi Gunpla Builders Beginning G,&#8221; that will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam plastic model franchise and serve as a promotion for the upcoming &#8220;Beginning Gundam&#8221; line of plastic model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21266,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions\/21266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}